Bill Scorzari

• The Crosswinds of Kansas [self-released, 2022] A-

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The Crosswinds of Kansas [self-released, 2022]
The third album by a retired NYC-based attorney whose gray beard reaches halfway down his torso is packaged as a 70-minute double-fold CD complete with a 16-page lyric booklet. So I strongly suggest you follow along while you listen, which I even more strongly suggest. As a singer he's most of the way to a talker, which is not to suggest that his Americana-in-the-rough melodies don't deliver his songs or that his musicians don't shore and liven them up. Sadly but also rather brilliantly, most describe or ponder failed relationships, not one of which presents itself as either casual or ill-fated on the face of it. They just don't work out, that's all. "With every situation that confronts me to my core, there comes a realization that I seem to have had before." "Now I'm just sittin' here in my car, thinkin' about how you and I have changed, and how there's no guarantee our destiny could ever be the same." "You said you hoped I wouldn't be lonely now that you're leaving me alone." "And then you said to me 'It's cause you never tried.' You never tried. You never tried. You never tried. You never . . . tried." A-